🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France 🎪 Social Circus School Volunteer at L’Art d’En Faire — Joyeuse 🤸

A circus school in rural southern France. Trapeze, juggling, and acrobatics as tools for social inclusion. A volunteer role that combines socio-cultural animation, youth work, and hands-on circus education in one of the most distinctive ESC placements out there. L’Art d’En Faire is looking for an ESC volunteer to join their team in Joyeuse, Ardèche — and a motivated beginner is just as welcome as an experienced circus artist.

🎪 About L’Art d’En Faire

L’Art d’En Faire is a social circus school operating in the Ardèche region of southern France, using circus arts as a tool for non-formal education, social cohesion, and community engagement. The project is coordinated by I-PEICC Peuple et Culture, a network dedicated to popular education and cultural action. The volunteer will work alongside a French volunteer and a wider team of youth workers and local volunteers.

🎯 The Role

The volunteer will carry out socio-cultural animation missions — supporting circus classes, contributing to youth projects, developing their own activities within the volunteer network, and handling logistics for events and educational actions. There is also space to bring and develop skills from outside circus if the volunteer has them.

📋 What You’ll Do

🤸 Assist in the educational supervision of circus arts activities — supporting classes and workshops

🌍 Participate in youth and social projects — working with other youth actors on non-formal education, sharing experiences, and serving as a peer guide for young people in the area

🤝 Develop projects of their own choice to energise the volunteer network of L’Art d’En Faire

🔧 Handle material logistics linked to educational actions and events — site layout, sound system, equipment management, DIY, welcoming the public, and receiving artistic companies

📣 Support communication and dissemination of the organisation’s activities

💡 Carry out activities related to their own skills — whatever they want to develop or bring to the team

🏠 Accommodation

The volunteer lives in a furnished individual studio apartment above the Joyeuse medical centre — a 10-minute walk from the circus school. Adjacent to another studio apartment where the French volunteer stays. Each studio has its own bathroom; the fully equipped kitchen and balcony are shared between the two volunteers.

🚗 A driving licence (Category B) is a plus — a vehicle may possibly be loaned. Buses also pass through Joyeuse for local travel.

🎁 What the Project Provides

🏠 Individual furnished studio apartment

🗣️ Online Linguistic Support (OLS) — the standard ESC language platform

📋 Participation in on-arrival and mid-term trainings organised by the French National Agency

🧑‍🏫 Regular contact with a mentor in the hosting organisation and a mentor in the sending organisation

📚 Welcoming time, training, and support for integration — including supervision methods, teaching approaches, and working with disabilities

👤 Who Should Apply

🎪 A desire to discover, practice, or train in circus arts is essential — but a motivated beginner is fully welcome

💡 The team values new ideas and skills brought by the volunteer

🤝 Interest in socio-cultural animation, youth work, and non-formal education

🌍 Openness to living and working in a rural community in southern France

🔎 New to ESC volunteering? Everything you need to know about how the programme works is right here: https://youthworkshub.org/15101/

🌍 Eligible Countries

🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇮🇹 Italy 🇱🇻 Latvia 🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇲🇹 Malta 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇵🇱 Poland 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇷🇴 Romania 🇸🇰 Slovakia 🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇪 Sweden

📅 Activity Dates

🗓️ 7 September 2026 — 27 August 2027

📍 Saint Etienne de Boulogne, France

⏰ Deadline

9 June 2026

🔗 Link

https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/51183_en

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